The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has vowed to resist any attempt to rewrite the history of the January 15, 1966 coup which led to the killing of some prominent political figures and military officers from the region. In a statement on Monday in Kaduna, marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day, Tukur Muhammad-Baba, spokesperson of the…
Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election has decried the escalating activities of bandits in the country. Expressing his concerns about the security situation on his X handle, Abubakar lamented that kidnappers have continued with their reign of terror unchecked. Abubakar condemned the…
The Chief of Air Staff (CAN), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said that the military has every reason to ensure a secure country under the current dispensation. According to him, President Bola Tinubu had provided the military with the needed equipment and resources to deliver on its constitutional mandates. The CAS noted with the N3.2tn…
The Nigerian Army, said it will investigate the alleged sexual harassment and maltreatment of Ruth Ogunleye, a female soldier by three senior officers. Ogunleye, had in a video published on Tik Tok, accused a colonel and two other senior officers in the army of harassment, intimidation and threat to life. According to her, her trouble…
On Friday, January 12, the Supreme pronounced Caleb Mutfwang as the duly elected governor of Plateau state after a fierce legal battle. Mutfwang returned to Jos, the Plateau capital amid tumultuous welcome by supporters and well-wishers. The celebration started from the Yakubu Gowon Airport, Heipang, to the city of Jos.
By Andrew Agbese Let me begin by paraphrasing the words of Prof. PLO Lumumba, the former director of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission by saying, if you ask the average Plateau man or woman, what ethnic group its most respected political leader, Joseph Gomwalk, the late police commissioner, belonged to, they’ll most definitely tell you they…
